Journal article

Direct numerical simulation of stoichiometric hydrogen/methane premixed jet flames

JZ Ho, M Talei, RL Gordon

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | Published : 2024

Abstract

The flame characteristics of turbulent premixed jet flames fuelled with stoichiometric hydrogen/methane mixtures are studied using Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS). The study investigates four cases with 0, 10, 50, and 80% hydrogen by volume while maintaining the jet Reynolds number at 10,300. The addition of hydrogen leads to reduced wrinkling as the flame moves from the thin-reaction zone regime towards the corrugated flamelet regime. This study underlines the importance of using appropriate non-dimensionalisation parameters for generalising the findings. Specifically, the flame thickness defined by Peters (2000) which use the conditions at the point of the maximum heat release rate is fo..

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Grants

Awarded by Australian Research Council


Funding Acknowledgements

This work was funded by the Future Fuels CRC, supported through the Australian Governments' Cooperative Research Centres Program. The cash and in-kind support from the industry participants is gratefully acknowledged. This research was also supported by the Australian Government's National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) , with access to computational resources provided by the National Computational Infrastructure and Pawsey Supercomputing Centre through the National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme. Mohsen Talei acknowledges the support of the Australian Research Council through the DECRA Fellowship (DE180100416) . The authors also acknowledge the generous support of the European Centre for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computation (CERFACS, http:// www.cerfacs.fr) , in providing the authors with the source code for NTMIX-CHEMKIN. In particular, the authors thank Dr. Benedicte Cuenot for her help with this code.